Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement

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	Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement When it comes to saving data center energy few companies would have the expertise of Google, which has some of the largest data centers in the world. It has or is experimenting with some interesting ideas to cool data centers more efficiently as well - it will soon open a seawater-cooled data center in Finland for example. Read More WHITE PAPER: HP & Intel Data Protection Strategy for SMB's with Remote Offices This white paper discusses how small and midsize businesses can effectively address their data protection challenges, implementing solutions that help store and protect their business-critical data as they cut costs and improve efficiency and reliability. Read now! In this Issue High on iCloud, Apple slates MobileMe's demise Brocade's virtualization strategy: We use everything How to measure data quality and protect against software audits HP shifts to purpose-built systems SaaS heats up IT service management arena NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros polled 10G top-of-rack switches to surge to $1B in sales this year Virtualization, 10G Ethernet streamline Cisco user's data center No 'Joni Mitchell clouds' here ... OK, just one Whirlwind tour of computing and telecom's top honors, awards and prizes WHITE PAPER: Quest Software Transaction Tracing through Complex Web Applications In this Quest white paper, learn about the components of a transaction as they cross various application domains. Then, discover the difficulty in connecting transaction components for monitoring, why continuously monitoring is key and how a third-party solution simplifies the challenge. Learn more. High on iCloud, Apple slates MobileMe's demise Apple told MobileMe subscribers Monday that the sync and storage service will be shuttered next year. Read More Brocade's virtualization strategy: We use everything Brocade's virtualization deployment makes use of VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and more. Read More How to measure data quality and protect against software audits Software asset management (SAM) covers a complex cross section of IT and business and can pose an integration problem between IT, purchasing and finance. For this reason the focal point of license management is transparency. And consistent transparency can only be realized through consistent data quality management. Read More WEBCAST: HP & Intel The world's most powerful virtualized array Read this solution brief to learn how to evolve and ready your data center to meet new demands. Read now HP shifts to purpose-built systems Hewlett-Packard will show off multiple systems built for specific purposes at its user conference this week in Las Vegas. Read More SaaS heats up IT service management arena Software-as-a-service options are popping up all over these days, as discussed in this week's special Enterprise Cloud Services [add link to 10 SaaS companies to watch please] feature package. IT management is no exception.  Read More NYSE launches VMware-based cloud for financial firms NYSE promises robust security, performance in cloud for financial industry. Read More WHITE PAPER: Diskeeper Corporation NEW Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier Edition Diskeeper 2011 Pro Premier edition provides essential performance and efficiency increases for power workstation users as well as all the features of the Professional edition. Learn more! Private clouds hold a wide lead over public clouds among IT pros polled Public clouds have a way to go if they want to be the top choice of businesses looking to put resources in a shared, centralized computing environment, according to a poll of 1,200 IT professionals. Read More 10G top-of-rack switches to surge to $1B in sales this year Even though sales of Layer 2/3 Ethernet switches declined 12% sequentially in the first quarter, sales of 10 Gigabit top-of-rack switches are expected to jump 51% to $1 billion this year, according to Dell'Oro Group. Read More Virtualization, 10G Ethernet streamline Cisco user's data center It is by no means the largest or most sophisticated Cisco network there is -- yet the infrastructure implemented by Transplace is nonetheless a great example of the target application for Cisco's data center switches. Read More No 'Joni Mitchell clouds' here ... OK, just one A colleague recently sent around this quote from a university CTO he interviewed for an upcoming article: "We're not building some generic Joni Mitchell cloud. The thing we're trying to do is build a cloud that is really infrastructure and services, not some vanilla, virtualized blah, blah, blah." No generic Joni Mitchell cloud for these guys; no sir, no way. And there's no need to explain the Mitchell... Read More Whirlwind tour of computing and telecom's top honors, awards and prizes From the Nobel to the Marconi: Internet, Ethernet, security and other IT/telecom pioneers get their recognition Read More
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